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R. GORTOIIL STUD.

APPLICATION FILED SEPTA-13.19-I5.

1,277,060 Patented Aug. 27, 1918.

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Specification of'LettersPatent.

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Application filed September 13, 1915. Serial No. 50,542.

To dll whom t may concern: y

Be it known that I, ROBERT GOR'rON', a citizen of the United States, residing at Brookline, in the county `of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Studs, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates particularly to studs for hose supporters of the kind shown in my U. S. Patent No. 1,057,396 of March 25, 1913. In that patent I have shown and described a stud comprising a base plate, a headed post secured to the base plate, and a rubber button applied to the headed post. I have also shown and described in said patent a stud comprising a base plate, two headed-posts secured to the base plate and a rubber button applied to the headed posts. Experience in the manufacture of said studs has demonstrated that in applying buttons to the headed posts air is sometimes confined or pockcted in the'post-receiving recesses of the buttons which interferes with a proper attachment of the buttons to the'base plates. One of the objects of my present invention Experience has riveted t0 the base plate by automatic ma chinery in theV manner described in. said patent they are sometimes imperfectly applied, being sometimes inclined or disposed at an angle to eachother instead of being parallel and at right angles to the base plate asthey should be, so that in applying the button to the headed post the latter will not properly enter the post-receiving recesses of the button making the attaching of the butt0n to the baseplatey diicult and sometimes imperfectl To remedy these defects I now so form the post or posts 'that provision is made for the escape of air from the post-receiving recess or recesses of the button while the butvten isfbeing applied, and I so form theheads of the twin posts that they will more readily enter the recesses of the buttons'. .y

Preferably each post is made tubular 'with an open side from its'outer to its inner end Y to permit -the escape of air and the head of each twin post instead of being circular as heretofore is made to extend partway around the post, thus facilitating' in applyin thebutton to the posts. should the latter no be truly mounted on the base plate.

I also by reference form the postor posts `from matei al taken from the base plate and .bent into the proper shape as I find that combined base plates and posts can be thus manufactured with greater accuracy and economy.

The accompanying drawings show preferred embodiments of my invention and v also some practical modiiications thereof.

Figure 1 is a perspective view 0f a hose supporter stud made in accordance with my invention. y A

Figa@ is a perspective view of the base plate and lbutton separated before they are connected.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the blank from which the combined base plate and -posts are made.

Fig. 4 is a transverse section through a base plate and button and shows one of the posts in elevation.

Fig. 5 is a longitudinal section of the same; Fig. 6 is a perspective view on an enlargedscale of a part of the base Plate and one of the posts formed from metal taken from the base plate.

Fig. 7 shows a modification and isa perspective viewl of a base plate with two posts connected therewith,the posts being in this instancemade separate and riveted to the base plate.-

The base plate A shown in Fig. 1 is preferably made of'nickel-plated metal, but it may be made of any suitable material. Tkhe button B is preferably made of rubber, butl it. may be made of some other similar elastic or yielding material. The posts C are made from metal taken from the base plate. The oblong button shown in Figs. 1 to 5 is similar to that shown in my patent above mentioned.

The base plate is cut on the lines indicated in Fig. 3 to provide material from which theY posts are formed. The metal parts indicated at a in Fig. 3 are bent upwardly on the dotted lines a until they assume .a relation parallel with each other and at right angles to the base plateJ and' they are each worked into a near-cylindrical form and provided with a flange or head c which eX- tends partway around the outer end of the post, leaving the inner side of the post which faces the companion post unprovided with ,a flange. an open slot c on its inner side facing its companion post.

Each post is also provided with` any air tending to accumulate in the inner ends of the recesses of the button-\\'ill escape by way vof the slots c and even should 1the posts be not exactly pa allel to the base plate they will properly enter the recesses 7) without,crowding the material interposed between said recesses. Experience has demonstrated that posts thus constructed properly enter the post-receiving recesses and take firm hold on the button.

.Fig 7 shows a construction in which the base plate A2 is provided with posts C2 formed separately and riveted to the base plate at c2. These posts have slots c for the escape of air in the manner before described and they'also have heads c* which extend part-way only around the outer ends of the posts and therefore this-construction enr bodies some ot the features of my invention.

I claim as my invention: l. A stud ,comprising a sheet metal hase plate having a. sheet metal post, formed integrally therewith, of tubular "torni and previded with aflanged head anda rubber button having' a post-receiving1 recess smaller at its entrance end than the flanged head and closed at its inner end into which the post extends.

2. stud comprising asheet metal base plate having?r a sheet metal post formed in tegrally therewith, of tubular Yform havinpl a slot at its side and provided with a llanged head and a rubber .button having a post-receivinnr recess smaller at. its ent-rance end than the flanged head and closed at its inner end into which the post extends.

3. A stud comprising a hase plate, two Sheet metal posts,'for1ned integrally with the base plate and each ot' which ot' tubular .forni slotted at the side and provided with a flanged head and a rubber button having p ost-receiving recesses each snndler at its entrance end than the hanged head and each closed at its inner end, and into which recess a post extends. A

t. A stud comprising a base plate,'t\vo sheet metal posts,r Vformed integrally with the base plaie and each of tubular forni and -provided at ifs outer end with a flange extending;` part way only around it and a rubber button having post-receiving` recesses, each ot' which is smaller at its entrance end than the flanged head of the postrwhioh it receives, which is closed at its inner end and into which the post'extends,

5. A stud comprising,T a base plate, two parallel hollow posts connected with the base plate and having flanged outer ends and slotted sides and a rubber button having,y post-receiving recesses smaller than the flanged` heads and closed at their inner ends info which the posts extelnl.

ln testimony whereof, l have hereunto" subscribed in v naine.

ll OBERT GORTOgN.

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A. L. Woon. 

